Measure Broadband..?

BTW, I notice you like to give B'c and C's as grades - if my initial response was not up to your standards, please ask for clarification (rather than closing the question), and I will try to give as much grade A info as possible, or I'm sure other experts will.

Cheers,
-Jon

BTW, you still need help w/ this one?

https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qShow.jsp?ta=winntnet&qid=20156611

Seemed to me that everyone misunderstood what you wanted to do, but I didn't comment there yet because I wanted to be sure you still needed help - it's kind of an old question.

Cheers,
-Jon

BTW, you still need help w/ this one?

https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qShow.jsp?ta=winntnet&qid=20156611

Seemed to me that everyone misunderstood what you wanted to do, but I didn't comment there yet because I wanted to be sure you still needed help - it's kind of an old question.

Cheers,
-Jon

Hi..Jon
Thanks a lot for Showing Interest in my Ols q. Yeah you are right everybody misundestood what i wanted to do..Lastly I got it. Actually there is one option is Avliable in Microsoft proxy Server.." Enable web Publishing" this option i had given 203.122.X.X to my local network IP ..and its working..

Thanks Again.

BTW, I notice you like to give B'c and C's as grades - if my initial response was not up to your standards, please ask for clarification (rather than closing the question), and I will try to give as much grade A info as possible, or I'm sure other experts will.

Cheers,
-Jon

Dear Sir,
Not like that. I think i have some Q that I had given 300 Mark with Excellent also. I am Sorry Ok I will care it in My future.
 Please if you have any other information regarding this (BroadBand) kindly help me.Now i am here http://www.dslreports.com/ then what to do ?

Go here:

http://www.dslreports.com/tools

and select the "speed test" URL.

I will try to find more sites - if you can tell me your greographic location, I may be more able to provide better results.

Thanks,
-Jon

Thanks !!
My geographic location is India

SOumen BOse

>My geographic location is India

I guessed that from your profile - just wanted to be sure you hadn't moved - do you have a city or province that narrows it down a bit more?  In case you are wondering, I live about two hours south of Chicago, IL (USA), in the twin cities of Champaign/Urbana (home of the original NCSA Mosiac, the internet's first web browser - OK, it's a cheesy claim to fame, I admit)

In any case, no problem - I think I will address this tomorrow (it's 3:45 AM here, although it's probably midday in India).  In the meanwhile I will try to find sites in India that have bandwidth testing capabilities.

Cheers,
-Jon

Setup MRTG ( http://www.mrtg.org ) and then ping -f the hell out of the remote port at your ISP. If you could specify the ISP, it might be easier to figure out where you can test from.
There is a useful utility known as bing that will let you test your network throughput. O'Reilly has a book on network management which you might want to refer to.
This question was asked in the linux-bangalore-technical group (archived online on yahoogroups), so you can search in those archives as well.

Not a bad idea, except that some ISPs will get annoyed - of course, you don't really need mrtg for this - just look at your interface counters (like mrtg does).  On the other hand, I'm not really sure ICMP is the best method for testing throughput, although I suppose you could play around with the packet lengths in order to more closely simiulate a large transfer.

Sorry about the delay - been a busy week

Cheers,
-Jon

Well, the ISP should not get annoyed about the router interface specific to the client being ping flooded by the client. Bing is a tool that automates this stuff, google should help in finding the download location.

>Well, the ISP should not get annoyed about the router >interface specific to the client being ping flooded by >the client

In this situation (64k line) that may be true, but that statement indicates a general lack of understanding - most routers have to do far less work to pass traffic than to receive traffic, and generate an entirely new response (i.e. in the case of ICMP echoes) - hence, if you are a client with a big pipe, pounding the hell out of your upstream's equipment does not endear you to them, and can get you disconnected if you do it often enough.   BOFH indeed...

Cheers,
-Jon

Also, pounding the hell out of the remote interface may tell you how big your pipe is, but it sure won't tell you if your ISP is oversubscribing your bandwidth farther up the chain.

soumenb - I will post some sites soon - in the meanwhile might I recommend testing via downloads from some Indian universities or large corporations that are close (networkwise) to you?

Cheers,
-Jon

As far as I know, the ISP would only guarantee the data rate into their network, i.e., upto their router interface, unless specified in the contract (thats what we do around here).
And as for the pounding, that was not a suggestion for something to be done on a regular basis.
Too many factors affect bandwidth for the ISP to provide you with a SLA, unless the entire traffic is within the ISPs network.
The contract should normally include the type of service level you will get, and if this is a usual contract, the 64kbps line will have a guarantee of 16kbps throughput upto the ISPs gateway, and 64kbps with the ISPs network.

Agreed, except that most providers don't get very granular with clients that want so little bandwidth, although things could be very different halfway around the world.  

I used to work for an ISP who always had over-capacity to their upstream - it was one of their biggest selling points to their customers ("buy X bandwidth from us and you get it all the way to our upstreams, who have huge backbones").  It was also one of the buggest reasons they went out of business (glad I got out before then).

The point is well-made by DVB - ask your ISP, and see what they say...  If they swear up and down that it is 64k to their upstream, ask for some internal servers that you can test against.

Cheers,
-Jon

Hi,

Has anyone tried this yet? http://leadbyte.com/downloads/nslite.aspx.

It works good and free.

Hope this help.
-Dennis

http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp

go there and pick a test that relates to your connection

G'day, soumenb
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